Groundwater
Ground water is formed when water fully saturates pores/cracks in the soil filling the ground with water and creating a mass of water underground. The main minerals in groundwater are sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, and sulfate.
Rain doesn't turn into soil. It wets the soil, then some of it percolates down through it on it's way to the water table. Some of it is used by the growing things in the soil (if any) and the microbial life in the soil, and some of it evaporates back into the air.
I believe it is the tundra. It does get little precipitation, and it is very cold, resulting in the frozen soil.
Precipitation affects a biomes soil type by determining the amount of moisture in the soil.
A soil moisture budget tracks the inputs and outputs of water in soil. At it's simplest form it tracks actual evapotranspiration, potential evapotranspiration and precipitation across a year for a given location. The model assumes that the first 100 mm of precipitation after P>Ep recharges the soil, the remainder of precipitationin this category is then surplus. The first 100 mm of precipitation when P
When water percolates down through the soil
The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration.As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the soil or flows across the ground. Usually it does both. When precipitation percolates into the soil it is called infiltration; when it flows across the ground it is called surface runoff. The amount of precipitation that infiltrates, versus the amount that flows across the surface, varies depending on factors such as the amount of water already in the soil, soil composition, vegetation cover and degree of slope.
The hydrologic cycle is a constant movement of water above, on, and below the earth's surface. It is a cycle that replenishes ground water supplies. It begins as water vaporizes into the atmosphere from vegetation, soil, lakes, rivers, snowfields and oceans-a process called evapotranspiration.As the water vapor rises it condenses to form clouds that return water to the land through precipitation: rain, snow, or hail. Precipitation falls on the earth and either percolates into the soil or flows across the ground. Usually it does both. When precipitation percolates into the soil it is called infiltration; when it flows across the ground it is called surface runoff. The amount of precipitation that infiltrates, versus the amount that flows across the surface, varies depending on factors such as the amount of water already in the soil, soil composition, vegetation cover and degree of slope.
Ground water is formed when water fully saturates pores/cracks in the soil filling the ground with water and creating a mass of water underground. The main minerals in groundwater are sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, and sulfate.
When water percolates down through the soil.
Hard-pan clay soil percolates (drains) water the slowest.
Aquifers are replenished through a process called recharge, where water from precipitation, rivers, or lakes infiltrates the ground and enters the underground reservoir. This water slowly percolates through the soil and rock layers to refill the aquifer. The rate of recharge depends on factors such as land use, climate, and geology.
Rain doesn't turn into soil. It wets the soil, then some of it percolates down through it on it's way to the water table. Some of it is used by the growing things in the soil (if any) and the microbial life in the soil, and some of it evaporates back into the air.
When the soil is very permeable
I believe it is the tundra. It does get little precipitation, and it is very cold, resulting in the frozen soil.
* Percolation
Precipitation affects a biomes soil type by determining the amount of moisture in the soil.